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The Messenger
Paul DeMarinis (US)
Golden Nica Interactive Art
The Messenger is an examination of the relationship between electricity and democracy as well as the influence of telecommunications technologies on our lifestyle. E-mails from all over the world are received by a computer and decoded by three output systems that actually constitute a historical reference to early experiments in transmitting messages via telegraphy: 26 washbasins with a different voice assigned to each one, a chorus line of 26 dancing skeletons, and a series of 26 electrolytic jars deliver short-lived read-outs of the electronic messages.
Prix Ars Electronica 2006, Golden Nica Interactive Art
Source: Paul DeMarinis
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